Available Now!

publications

also available

introduction

Leslie Fielding read History at Cambridge, where he is an Honorary Fellow
of Emmanuel College, and Persian at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, London.

He joined the then Foreign Service in 1956, working initially in Tehran
and (briefly) Singapore, before being put in charge of the British Embassy
in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 1964 to 1966.

His subsequent diplomatic career took him to Paris, in the political
section; Brussels, as a director in the European Commission; Tokyo, as
EU Ambassador; and back to Brussels, as Director-General for External
Relations.

He has been a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Sussex.

He is married to the medievalist, Sally Harvey; they have two children.

Sir Leslie was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and
St George (KCMG) in 1988.

Available Now!

Is Diplomacy Dead?

This is a book for both modern diplomatic historians and the informed general public.

The focus is on four major international issues of the 1960s-80s: the Cambodian tragedy; the French 'veto'; the challenge of Japan; the freeing up of world trade. State confidences are laid bare; the techniques of diplomatic reporting, exposed. But there is more to come: times have since changed; diplomatic services have suffered. So, is diplomacy now dead?